I have looked and looked through pages and pages of stuff on the web. Some programs look like thy can do the job but have very little documentation on ho to go about it, like sendsave and eepinator, maybe its just me being thick or just having a brain overload.

2. Download the shareware FlashManager software and use that with your F2A USB cable to dump the save file to your computer. Use the latest English beta (3.0 Beta 13 or something like that). Note that if you dump an EEPROM save you'll find that every 8 bits are flipped, which you can fix with a simple Perl script. See http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/FlashManager for more info on that. I personally tested this method with Minish Cap and can verify it works.

I just started looking at the GBA Backup tool. The website its from does not have an English translation which makes life a bit harder as when I try it ( either with the R4 or M3 ) as it will backup a whole card, but the options page for the Save backup has "New Save File Create" option greyed out for all three of the games I listed. I am going to try the FlashManager software for the F2A cable next then...

No problem, glad I could help. Now there is one other thing you can do with a F2A cable, and that is using your GBA as a joypad for your computer, if you're interested in hearing about that. I personally used it along with the JoyToKey program to control my mouse cursor from my GBA. Gimmicky, but fun to show people.